ATAI

ATAI is a collaboration between the Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL) and UC Berkeley's Center for Effective Global Action (CEGA), launched in 2009 with support from the Gates Foundation, UK International Development from the UK government, and an anonymous donor... The mission of the Agricultural Technology Adoption Initiative (ATAI) is to rigorously test programs that increase farmer welfare through the broader use of productive technologies in South Asia and sub-Saharan Africa. We aim to generate a rigorous evidence base that helps carefully identify whether particular approaches are successful in spurring agricultural transformation... ATAI funds our network of researchers to generate rigorous evidence through randomized evaluations on the stages of agricultural transformation. Agricultural transformation is the process of farmers transitioning out of subsistence and into expanding commercial enterprise through increased productivity and diversification, the expansion..